Not my P, ESPN's.

I was watching Dan Partrick's radio show on DirecTV the other day when David
Feherty said a British tabloid was under an injunction to not publish
embarrassing pictures of Colin Montgomerie, a married professional golfer
who admitted to having an affair earlier this year (shocking I know, since
from the media coverage one would think that Tiger Woods is the only married
man in the world who has ever done that).

Patrick and his staff often joke about employees of ESPN not being allowed
to mention his name or program. I have always assumed it was just that - a
joke. I read this afternoon though the following on espn.com:
http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/rydercup10/news/story?id=5456030

"European Ryder Cup captain Colin
Montgomerie<http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/players/profile?playerId=313>dismissed
allegations about his personal life that came to light on a
nationally syndicated radio show that featured CBS-TV analyst David
Feherty."

Nowhere in the rest of the story does it identify the "nationally syndicated
radio show" as the Dan Patrick Show. That just seems really silly and
unclassy of the worldwide leader. I only caught about 30 minutes of the DPS
this morning, and maybe they referenced it there. I never went to journalism
school, but aren't you supposed to credit your sources, even if they are
competitors?

On another but related front, the pimp ESPN did business with earlier this
summer got into a bru ha ha today with Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin. That's
a shame...

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